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A farewell until September 10th . . .

Learning from Boccaccio's humanism — “Umana cosa è aver compassionedegli afflitti" — It is human to have compassion for those in distress

Weighing everything by the measure of the silent presence of things . . . each step a meditation steeped in reality.

Becoming watchmen & women warning people not to go back to barbarism and bestiality

". . . the readiness to receive is all. Without that what can be given?" — A summer cycle ride with Bugbee and Beethoven

Accepting the teaching of an angry, human Jesus — a meditation in the shadow of the conflict between Israel and Gaza

"No intimacy: no revelation. No revelation: no givenness of things." (Henry Bugbee) — On becoming modern "Green Men and Women"?

Is it really, self-evidently true, that that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"?